Thursday, April 2, 2009

Walk the Line

How can life fit into 136 minutes, considering the life that he lived? The man was a legend. He was an inspiration to people all over; the music that he wrote and performed helped left the guilty and innocent conscious alike. The man is Johnny Cash.
The Biopic of JR’s (Johnny Cash) life is an incredible start. He is a young boy growing up in the Arkansas cotton fields. That’s what his family did. JR his older brother Jack. This is a major plot point because the two were so close. You were able to see this in the actions that the actors did. Jack and JR were brothers but also good friend; this is evident in every scene that they are in.
But this is things start to change. On a day when there is still work to be done, Jack decides to stay and finish the logs that need to be cut. JR decides to go fishing, with no one there to help Jack he gets into trouble. Jack fells on the saw and cuts himself from his waits up to his chest. This is a vary bad accident because it is a fatal cut.
When JR is on his way home, his father drives by and tells him to get in the car. They then arrive at the hospital. As his father drags JR in to the room he sees the bloody clothes in a sink. That when the is Brought into the room where his brother Jack is lying on a bed with a wraps around his chest and blood showing through. JR starts to cry seeing his brother on the bed. Then his dad starts to demand were have you been. “Where have you been, Where have you been. This is your fault.” JR cant say anything, but his dad is still mad and tells him that God took the wrong son.
Years later JR joins the Air Force. On the day that leaves there is calm. He does not say much to his father when he leaves. There is not much to say to him.
But there he is, Mr. Johnny Cash in Germany. He is stationed in a office, but hes not doing work, he talking to his girl friend. So far up to this point, all the shots have been up close to capture the faces and expirations that the actors portray. It is vary interesting that the people have been doing. They are a vary good cast that know what there doing.
But the next plot is intriguing. They have vary many new people that come into the sence that help build Johnny as he is. This is also the plot point that is starting to make Johnny to become a musician. It goes into his family life and his music life as well. He went to a studio and tried the get a record. JR eventually won over Phillips with new songs delivered by his band.
But there was also another part to JR. As his career was taking off in the early 1960s, JR started drinking heavily and became addicted to amphetamines. For a brief time, he shared an apartment in Nashville with Waylon Jennings, who was heavily addicted to amphetamines. JR used the uppers to stay awake during tours. Friends joked about his "nervousness" and erratic behavior, many ignoring the warning signs of his worsening drug addiction.
When he was touring, he went to many prisons, Johnny felt great compassion for prisoners. He began performing concerts at various prisons starting in the late 1960s. These performances led to a pair of highly successful live albums, Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison (1968).

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